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Trisolarian

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Holy shit, reading the thread on the 'other forum about EGS.... Wow.

I'm an asshole on this site and I admit that. I magnify things out of proportion, I hold long ass grudges too. I'm actually not that nice of a person IRL as well, (literally made a product sales person, like someone who is trying to sell a product in a store who works for the product manufacturer, talk to the hand yesterday bc I didn't want to play nice)

If I'm the worst this site has to offer, I wouldn't even rate on the 'other place' Straight up someone just tried to shame anti EGS people by referencing their autism and natural resistance to change as not being a barrier to accepting EGS timed exclusives and that if they could do it than other people could too.

Don't go into those threads.
 

texhnolyze

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I mean it's true. I said this a few days ago. Why would you lower the price ? If you can make more money for the same price :upside-down-face: .
Yeah, it's true. And thus, now Epic can't be held accountable for what they said a year or two ago about games becoming cheaper due to the lower cut. It's like they knew this would happen.
 

Trisolarian

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Yeah, it's true. And thus, now Epic can't be held accountable for what they said a year or two ago about games becoming cheaper due to the lower cut. It's like they knew this would happen.
Money desires more money.

When I was younger I used to argue for higher than $60 game prices. More content I said. Less DLC!! No more season passes.

Lol. I was younger than. The people who still believe EGS will lower prices for consumers must be like 25 or younger.
 

Trisolarian

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But the thing is, they've successfully planted that pitch in everyone's mind, including journalists. We've had countless articles saying how good the 12% cut is for customers, and yet they won't publish another one that it never actually happened.
They repackaged the classic lie of 'trickle down economics' for video game distribution deals. No one wants to admit they got duped.
 
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Álvaro de Campos

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Just wanted to pop by and gush about how incredible Black Myth: Wukong looks.
Coincidental that I just the other day got my hands on all the volumes of Journey to the West, so I'll have to move those up the list.
The top comment on the IGN re-upload of the video was quite interesting too.
"For years Chinese people have been trying to dig up the true meanings behind the mysteries of the journey to the west, and a popular theory argued that Wukong was the representation of Chinese people's rebellious spirit against the feudalism/religious establishment in ancient China, but in the end he still didn't escape the fate of being assimilated (by being granted the title of a Buddha), so in contrary to the traditional view of his story being a glorious adventure, it was actually a tragedy. And there was a famous "conspiracy" stated that the real monkey king was replaced with the Six Eared Macaque who can imitate every living creature in the world, because the former was more rebellious and tended to go rogue and the latter was more "obedient"."
 

warp_

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the good side of them out quickly is they are backwards compatible. you can play the hitman 1 levels in 2 and can play 1+2 in 3. 😆
 

Swenhir

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Holy shit, reading the thread on the 'other forum about EGS.... Wow.

I'm an asshole on this site and I admit that. I magnify things out of proportion, I hold long ass grudges too. I'm actually not that nice of a person IRL as well, (literally made a product sales person, like someone who is trying to sell a product in a store who works for the product manufacturer, talk to the hand yesterday bc I didn't want to play nice)

If I'm the worst this site has to offer, I wouldn't even rate on the 'other place' Straight up someone just tried to shame anti EGS people by referencing their autism and natural resistance to change as not being a barrier to accepting EGS timed exclusives and that if they could do it than other people could too.

Don't go into those threads.
Yeah, that's what we do. We don't, and we don't even talk about them because that would increase their relevance. If the place is an abusive craphole, then removing yourself from it about the few healthy choices you do have.

As for EGS, it is a terrible platform and exclusivity tactics are a toxic mess to the openness of the PC. In my case, this isn't a big loss, I wasn't into those games and this ensured I'll never be. Too bad for them.
 

BO7AMMOOD

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But the thing is, they've successfully planted that pitch in everyone's mind, including journalists. We've had countless articles saying how good the 12% cut is for customers, and yet they won't publish another one that it never actually happened.
Oh they've planted something in journalists alright, but it ain't no pitch.
 

warp_

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thinking on it, i'm not playing many games day one anymore unless they are an mmo or cyberpunk so i guess this hitman business isn't that big of a deal. thanks tim!
 

fantomena

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Due to all the patching, definitive edition, quickly going on sales, you might as well not buy AAA games on release unless you really want it and know you will play it day 1.

I still kinda regret getting Doom Eternal day 1 despite playing through it during the week it released as it went on sale really quickly.
 

LEANIJA

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True, but Hitman 3 is one I wouldve played day 1...

anyway, since I never was on the "other forum", could anyone provide me with a backstory to it? I dont quite understand the connection there.
 

low-G

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My feelings about modern gaming is just getting worse and worse lately.

Between Oculus just sinking further, to the 'next gen' game announcements, the (probable) video card pricing rumors, EGS, the state of storefronts (iOS, etc), the state of P2W (been playing a simple puzzle game for my daughter and it irks me), rerelease bullshit like Control... That's only scraping the surface.

The old days really were better. Makes me want to just ball up and exclusively play retro games (on emulation) for a while. Or at least stick to the known quantities I enjoy, because I don't see much to look forward to in gaming.
 

Mivey

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Is it adjusted to year 2020? Or is it the same picture that has been floating around a few years :D
Here's the website:

Not sure where it's getting the inflation data from, but the text is generated by a script, afaik. It's also using inflation on the US dollar, so to be perfectly accurate for your currency you might want to look up the value of the late 1990 USD, translate that into your currency, and then fast forward the inflation.
 

Deku

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Here's the website:

Not sure where it's getting the inflation data from, but the text is generated by a script, afaik
Did not know that it was a generated picture 😁
 

kio

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still holds true, i guess
I'm a super cheap bastard so even 20€ is, generally, too expensive for me. Over 90% of my purchases are under 10€ and possibly 60-70% below 5€.
There's no rush to get a game day one or even year one, when there's a fuckton of patches and content being released post-release. Getting the goty or complete edition 2 years after the initial release is the most sensible thing we consumers can do. I'm still waiting for the Civ6 complete edition...
 
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Li Kao

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Fahrenheit 451, it’s, uh, pretty self explanatory.
Maybe I misunderstand the question.
 
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